Table 3.

Averaged model parameter estimates including 95% confidence limits and SE for four species of waders in the nesting and chick‐rearing phase

		Mean	Lclm	Uclm	SE
Nesting
Lapwing	Area	0.04718	−0.16613	0.26050	0.10884
Lapwing	Tussock	0.02468	−0.20510	0.25446	0.11723
Lapwing	VegHeight	−0.15809	−0.52409	0.20790	0.18673
Lapwing	Distance	0.00119	−0.10379	0.10617	0.05356
Redshank	Area	0.04870	−0.18113	0.27852	0.11726
Redshank	Tussock	−0.00003	−0.13618	0.13612	0.06947
Redshank	VegHeight	−0.11694	−0.45134	0.21746	0.17061
Redshank	Distance	0.00071	−0.08591	0.08732	0.04419
Godwit	Area	0.03683	−0.20055	0.27421	0.12111
Godwit	Tussock	0.00612	−0.15052	0.16276	0.07992
Godwit	VegHeight	−0.05306	−0.34099	0.23487	0.14690
Godwit	Distance	0.00103	−0.09879	0.10086	0.05093
Oystercatcher	Area	0.05371	−0.14300	0.25042	0.10036
Oystercatcher	Tussock	−0.00125	−0.12016	0.11766	0.06067
Oystercatcher	VegHeight	−0.15558	−0.48436	0.17319	0.16774
Oystercatcher	Distance	−0.00018	−0.06570	0.06533	0.03343
Chick‐rearing
Lapwing	Area	0.00001	−0.02412	0.02413	0.01231
Lapwing	Tussock	0.06247	−0.22738	0.35232	0.14788
Lapwing	VegHeight	−0.04651	−0.37054	0.27752	0.16532
Lapwing	Distance	0.00009	−0.06495	0.06513	0.03318
Godwit	Area	0.00000	−0.02555	0.02556	0.01304
Godwit	Tussock	0.01856	−0.18636	0.22348	0.10455
Godwit	VegHeight	−0.02294	−0.33299	0.28711	0.15819
Godwit	Distance	0.00145	−0.10950	0.11240	0.05661

The most and second most important parameters for each species are marked with bold and italics, respectively. For nesting lapwing, it was impossible to discriminate between the two most important parameters and both were marked with bold. For oystercatcher, only VegHeight was important.